Tag Archives: access to medicines

Hurricane season has grown to last six months – running June through November. This means we are well into 2013′s hurricane season. Although the Eastern and Southern United States have seen their fair share of bad storms in the last few years, the most recent major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Surprisingly Hurricane Sandy in October of 2012 was not technically was not a hurricane, but a confluence of major Read More >

BioCentury TV interviewed biotech leaders throughout the recent BIO International Convention in Washington, DC. The first interview can be found here (links to the other interviews can be found on the right). (July 24) Public+Private Part 1 — Turning Great Science into Medicine — and Jobs: Dr. Michel Goldman of Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative xplains how the pharma-driven agenda is creating a new “ecosystem” in Europe for drug developers. (July 31) Public+Private Part 2 – Read More >

The Role of Intellectual Property in Global Health BIO is committed to increase access to biologic medicines for patients throughout the world. As BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood said last year when announcing our policy statement on Options for Increasing Access to Medicines in the Developing World, “We believe that the goals of increasing access to medicines, respecting intellectual property rights, and maintaining commercial viability are mutually supportive.” While there are frequent misguided calls Read More >

Here are the highlights from BIO’s recent submission on the proposed PTO “Request for Comments on Incentivizing Humanitarian Technologies and Licensing Through the Intellectual Property System.” Background: 1. “BIO’s members also understand that problems with access to medicines and other biotechnology products in the developing world have very little to do with the patent system, and are generally caused by other factors outside the control of individual stakeholders, such as lack of adequate local manufacturing, Read More >